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Stones Landing California Map

Explore Stones Landing, California, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Stones Landing, California

How to Use This Stones Landing, California Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Stones Landing, California. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of California or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Stones Landing.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Stones Landing
State	California (CA)
County	Lassen County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles)

Latitude	40.691549
Longitude	-120.734628
Population	86
Density	15.7 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	96130
Area Code	530
County Seat	Susanville
School District	Lassen Union High School District

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About Stones Landing, California

Stones Landing is a locality in Lassen County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 86. The population density is 15.7 people per km². Stones Landing is located at 40.6915°N, 120.7346°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 96130.

Stones Landing occupies a stretch of high-plains terrain where the earth holds the heat of the afternoon long after the sun has begun its descent. It lies 20.8 miles north of Susanville, CA (from Susanville, CA: bearing 350°T), and is situated 30.6 miles north-northwest of Janesville. Cleghorn Creek cuts a narrow, serpentine path through the dry grasses a mile to the west, providing the only consistent shade in a landscape otherwise defined by the wide, open expanse of the Eagle Lake Basin Area of Critical Environmental Concern. On the horizon, the jagged, distant silhouettes of the Cascade Range shimmer through the haze, marking a boundary that feels both immense and unreachable. The air here carries a sharp, resinous scent of parched earth and wild sage, and the light at dusk bleeds a bruised purple across the dust, turning the scrub brush into silhouettes that seem to watch the slow rotation of the world.

History at Stones Landing is written in the rusted remnants of agricultural machinery and the stoic endurance of the few homesteads that remain from the early days of inland settlement. The local economy persists through a quiet adherence to dry-land farming and the management of grazing rights within the surrounding basin, a rhythm dictated entirely by the meager, seasonal rainfall. Residents often look toward the water levels at Heath Dam Reservoir, nine miles away, as the primary indicator of the year’s fortune, measuring their prosperity in the inches of moisture held in reserve. Life in Stones Landing moves with a deliberate, sparse gravity, where the silence of the midday heat is interrupted only by the occasional truck rattling toward the distant shade of Dow Flat, leaving behind nothing but a lingering plume of fine, pale grit.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Eagle Lake Basin Area of Critical Environmental Concern (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 0.2 mi, 345° N
Lassen National Forest (National Forest) — 0.5 mi, 260° W · 1.1M acres
Osprey Overlook (Viewpoint) — 8.9 mi, 188° S
Willow Creek Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.5 mi, 143° SE
Merrill Amphitheater (Theatre) — 10.6 mi, 201° S
Tunnison Mountain Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 13.1 mi, 140° SE · 20k acres
Modoc National Forest (National Forest) — 15.0 mi, 351° N · 1.7M acres
Willow Creek (Area of Critical Environmental Concern) — 17.2 mi, 143° SE
California State Lands Commission (State Resource Management Area) — 18.1 mi, 319° NW
Lassen Historical Museum (Museum) — 19.3 mi, 168° S
Lassen County Arts Council (Gallery) — 19.3 mi, 168° S
Caribou Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 26.2 mi, 237° SW · 21k acres
Five Springs Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 28.2 mi, 106° E · 50k acres
Lassen Volcanic Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 28.8 mi, 249° W · 79k acres
Lassen Volcanic National Park (National Park) — 28.8 mi, 249° W · 107k acres
Upper Pit River Canyon (Wild & Scenic River) — 29.5 mi, 311° NW · 3,279 acres
Chester-Lake Almanor Museum (Museum) — 37.0 mi, 225° SW
Terminal Geyser (Attraction) — 38.6 mi, 241° SW
Hat Creek Radio Observatory (Attraction) — 39.4 mi, 283° W
Devastated Area (Attraction) — 40.2 mi, 253° W
Devils Kitchen (Attraction) — 40.6 mi, 245° SW
Site of the First School in Fall River Valley (Monument) — 41.0 mi, 310° NW
Vehicle (Historic Ruins) — 41.5 mi, 207° SW
Lockhart Ferry (Monument) — 42.8 mi, 300° NW
Plumas County Museum (Museum) — 53.4 mi, 192° S
Totem Pole (Public Artwork) — 62.0 mi, 257° W
Western Pacific Railroad Museum (Museum) — 62.8 mi, 167° S
Mammoth Mill (Historic Ruins) — 64.5 mi, 179° S
Pioneer Ski Area of America (Monument) — 64.6 mi, 178° S
Plumas-Eureka State Park Museum (Museum) — 64.6 mi, 178° S

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